Executions take place again on 26 September

On 30 June 1796, Catholic priest Pascal Mardel was among forty-seven prisoners brought before the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The court asked why execution should not be awarded; a jury found the...

After forty-seven prisoners were sentenced, Governor Alexander Houston declined to execute all of them at once and selected fourteen he considered “most notorious” for execution on 1 July 1796. The...

Pascal Mardel, a Roman Catholic priest and participant in the rebellion, was among the first seven of the fourteen selected for execution on 1 July 1796. They were publicly hanged at the Market...

Historical scholarship identifies 9 July 1796 as another date on which insurgents were publicly executed after the collapse of Fédon’s campaign. This record marks the continuation of colonial...

On 25 July 1796, eight insurgents—three white men and five free men of color—were publicly executed in St George’s. At the same time, other insurgents who avoided execution remained confined on...

The day after the 26 September executions, public executions of insurgents continued on 27 September 1796. Recording the consecutive dates makes visible a sustained wave of state violence rather...

A further public execution date recorded by historians is 12 October 1796. The process of punishment extended months beyond the end of open hostilities in June, while other prisoners remained in...

The Assembly made escape or absence from confinement for 48 hours a felony for enslaved people sentenced to banishment or hard labour in chains, with death among the possible punishments. The law also...

The law required owners to provide family housing and provision grounds, and to allow time for enslaved people to cultivate them. It also appointed white freeholder guardians to inspect estates and...

A Grenada law dated 25 October 1806 repealed an earlier provision requiring a £100 payment connected with manumission. This narrow legal change could ease one barrier to individual self-purchase or an...